Importance of Project Life Cycle in Software Development

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMNT PRINCIPALS
PROJECT MANAGEMNT PRINCIPALS
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
Description of the situation:.........................................................................................................2
Analysis of the situation:.............................................................................................................3
Reflection of the events:..............................................................................................................5
Initialization of the project (Documentation of the requirement):...............................................6
Planning :.....................................................................................................................................6
Execution of the project;..............................................................................................................6
Monitoring and controlling:.........................................................................................................7
Closing:........................................................................................................................................7
Modification of the future outcome while managing the project:...............................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Management of the project is important for the proper development of the outcome.
There are various stages of project management. The success of the project is dependent on
various factors like the proper resource management and risks management (Brioso 2015).
However, during the phase of the development it the project life cycle has to be maintained
Project life cycle consists the stages. The proper compilation of all stages will generate the
desirable project outcome which will meet all the requirements of the clients. The main objective
of this paper is to evaluate the significance of the project life cycle in the development of the
project. In order to do this a software development has been chosen to study the significance of
the project life cycle. The findings will indicate the dependency of the success or the failure of
the project on maintaining the life cycle of the project. The discussion is done on the basis of
PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge). Apart from that other essential factors for
the success of the projects has been covered in this discussion. The conclusion is made on the
basis of the findings and the recommendations are made for the further improvement of the
development of the project.
Discussion
Description of the situation:
The situation is regarding the development of the online ticket booking system. The main
objective is to build a platform that will help to generate the tickets online. The system must have
the preferable user interface. On the other hand the managing of the data by the administration
can be done properly through the system. While the development of the project we had to be

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concerned about the security of the system along with that the robustness of the system has to be
maintained. We have faced certain problems during the development of the project during the
development of the database and implementation of the user interface. However, these problems
were resolved through the sharing of the knowledge among the team members. The project
management methodology used in this case I the agile project management methodology. In this
methodology the delivery of the outcome of the outcome of the project is done in the iterative
method. The feedback is taken after the delivery of the outcome at each iteration. The
modification of the project is done on the basis of the feedback of the project.
Analysis of the situation:
While development of the project it has been found that the requirement of the project
may be complex. The point of view for the development of the project can be different (Heldman
2018). The users of the system can think the project in one way, on the other hand if we think
the overview of the project from the administrative level, the requirement of the project changed.
In this case, we realized that the analysis of the requirement of the requirement of the project is
important.
The analysis of the situation can be done from the discussion of various articles and
journals regarding the development of the project (Varajão, Colomo-Palacios and Silva 2017).
The stages in the project management life cycle is defined in the project management body of
knowledge. PMBOK is not a project management methodology it is a project management
standard which defines the attributes of the successful projects (Bucero and Englund 2015). The
significance of following the project management life cycle while the development of the project
is that the outcome of the project will follow all the requirements specified by the client (Richter
2015). The documentation of the requirement is import at as it helps to mitigate the chances of